Denise Launay
Denise Launay was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.Biography
Launay studied the history of music with André Pirro and Paul-Marie Masson at the Sorbonne, and the organ with André Marchal and Gaston Litaize. From 1939, she was a curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She was the organist at the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church in Paris during 35 ans.
She was buried at, alongside her father Paul Yvon, a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.Works
Publications
- 1965: Essai d’un commentaire de Titelouze par lui-même
- 1974: Anthologie du psaume français polyphonique , tome 1, Éditions ouvrières, 35 p.
- 1993: La musique religieuse en France du Concile de Trente à 1804, Société française de musicologie et Éditions Klincksieck, Paris,, 583 p.
